This report explains the benefits that Hadoop and Hadoop-based products can bring to organizations today, both for big data analytics and as complements to existing BI and data warehousing technologies based on TDWI research plus survey responses from 325 data management professionals across 13 industries. It also covers Hadoop best practices and provides an overview of tools and platforms that integrate with Hadoop.

This paper looks at this problem and how Webroot, by going back to the drawing board on counering malware threats, is revolutionizing endpoint protection and solving the issues that hinder existing endpoint security solutions.

This guide details some of the major considerations when looking to secure cloud application use, the limitations of existing pointproducts, including traditional Secure Web Gateways (SWGs), and an overview of the integrated cloud security gateway approach that is needed to provide comprehensive, information-centric security as your data moves between your users and your cloud applications.

The ability to integrate systems and share data across the enterprise is a common datacenter need. The needs of an integration bus, the technology used for middleware-based integration, can varyin complexity, data volume, and required performance. Both Red Hat and MuleSoft offer multiple products that can help customers develop and deploy middleware integration solutions. This competitive overview compares Red Hat® JBoss® Fuse to Mule ESB Enterprise.

With a secure foundation in place to manage internal IT, many IT leaders are thinking about a foundation for the entire business. In the new world of mobile apps, cloud services, and the Internet of Everything, people, processes, data, and devices are all converging to reshape how day-to-day business is done. Companies are reaching out to customers and partners—and even intelligent objects like connected cars and monitoring systems—and modifying the products and services they bring to market as a result. To an unprecedented degree, the future of an enterprise lies in the hands of the CIO and her IT staff who orchestrate these connections and act on the benefits they bring.
IT leaders are finding new opportunities in an era of digital disruption. This executive brief provides a quick overview of how they are driving growth and increasing efficiency by securely connecting the digital enterprise with customers, partners, suppliers and distributors.

This white paper is intended for:
• Potential users such as analysts and investigators who want
information about i2 Analyst’s Notebook Premium and the
benefits it provides
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This document provides an overview of the i2 Analyst’s
Notebook Premium product.

This white paper is intended for:
• Potential users such as analysts and investigators who want information about i2 Analyst’s Notebook Premium and the benefits it provides
• System administrators who wish to gain a high-level understanding of the product and the system prerequisites that are needed to install and run the application
• Users who wish to learn how to exploit the maximum value of i2 Analyst’s Notebook Premium.
This document provides an overview of the i2 Analyst’s Notebook Premium product. For more information on product features and capabilities in specific versions visit: ibm.com/smartercities.

With a secure foundation in place to manage internal IT, many IT leaders are thinking about a foundation for the entire business. In the new world of mobile apps, cloud services, and the Internet of Everything, people, processes, data, and devices are all converging to reshape how day-to-day business is done. Companies are reaching out to customers and partners—and even intelligent objects like connected cars and monitoring systems—and modifying the products and services they bring to market as a result. To an unprecedented degree, the future of an enterprise lies in the hands of the CIO and her IT staff who orchestrate these connections and act on the benefits they bring.
IT leaders are finding new opportunities in an era of digital disruption. This executive brief provides a quick overview of how they are driving growth and increasing efficiency by securely connecting the digital enterprise with customers, partners, suppliers and distributors.

Learn how automation is the key to saving time and boosting satisfaction
This eBook, “Accelerate Service Delivery with Automation,” will help you reclaim lost productivity with:
An overview of the objectives and benefits of automation
Best practices for transforming your ITSM into a modern, reliable experience
Useful measurements for gauging progress and demonstrating the success of your automation efforts

Many companies have turned to virtualization technologies for their servers and in their data centers to simplify administration and to reduce management chores and operating costs while maintaining reliability and safeguarding against disasters. Seeing the significant benefits virtualization delivers in those environments, companies are now looking to apply the same technology to their desktop computers.

In a world where one-to-one personalization and individual relationships are a necessity to ensure marketing campaigns drive action, Consumer Engagement Marketing enables marketers to respond to a wide variety of individual behaviors in real-time with personalized content, dramatically increasing click-through rates, engagement, revenue, and ROI.

Intellectual Property (IP) is the life-blood of your Aerospace & Defense business. It’s the product designs that required thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars to create, or the 10-year strategy overviews that can give a competitor a huge advantage.
The stakes for safeguarding IP within the Aerospace & Defense industry are at an all-time high, given the costs, complexity and potential military applications of their products.
Read this White Paper to learn how you can secure and manage your IP by implementing the right strategy.

Collaboration and email applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint are critical for business productivity. But care needs to be taken in selecting the right infrastructure for hosting these applications. Download this technical overview and learn how VMware, Cisco, and Nimble Storage have developed a pre-validated reference architecture that delivers industry-leading performance, data protection, and management simplicity.

“The network is your business” has been a mantra for many years indicating how businesses rely more heavily on being networked between their facilities, data centers, suppliers, business partners and customers.
Your network enables your business to:
• Improve productivity
• Provide business continuity
• Increase customer satisfaction
• Reduce costs
This paper provides an overview of the different types of Ethernet services, the service components that differentiate them, their business and technical benefits, and important things to consider when selecting an Ethernet service.

Discover the IBM System x3650, a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket SMP server, ideal for application serving in Web environments. This product guide gives an overview of the x3650, as well as key features and specifications of this flexible, reliable, and simple-to-manage server.

An integrated production faxing solution offers a number of benefits to the enterprise. This paper highlights the financial and workflow improvements you can expect by automating the document delivery process in your organization. See why companies that have made considerable investment in back-office automation systems take this next logical step to automate delivery of high volume, transactional paper documents.

When it comes to displays, today, businesses are making a habit of investing in flat panel TVs without thinking much more about it. Yet visual communication is essential. In fact, humans rely so heavily upon our sight that though it is only one of five senses, vision gives us 30% of our information. When a new product is introduced to a room full of editors, when a team of engineers analyzes a circuit board, or a teacher is trying to bring a concept to life, the visuals are as important, maybe even more, than the spoken word.
The purpose of this paper is to provide you with an overview that can serve as a catalyst to maximize the effectiveness for each dollar spent. It will also give you the cliff note version of what’s happening today in the visual display world, provide you a short list of things to consider and provide a suggested mindset to help you avoid dreaded buyers’ remorse. Consider these tips on how visuals are actually used, deployed, and maintained, and how much of a sizeable impact you can make in your organization by choosing the right path for your next project, replacement, revamp or remodel.

Become acquainted with the script logic functionality available in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.x, version for SAP NetWeaver. Review use cases for script logic, its architecture, various ways to execute it, and a few basic key words. Designed for individuals who will be end users of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation or who require a product overview. The goal is to work with the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Web interfaces.

First-generation security intelligence and security incident and event management products have promised a lot, but some of these tools require considerable resources to manage the solution. The growth in security-as-a-service offerings, however, offers an opportunity for information security teams to follow the path successfully laid by many other IT departments. Read this white paper, “Security intelligence can deliver value beyond expectations and needs to be prioritized” for an overview of market adoption of security-as-a-service.

This guide details some of the major considerations when looking
to secure cloud application use, the limitations of existing pointproducts, including traditional Secure Web Gateways (SWGs), and an overview of the integrated cloud security gateway approach that is needed to provide comprehensive, information-centric security as your data moves between your users and your cloud applications.

An integrated production faxing solution offers a number of benefits to the enterprise. This paper highlights the financial and workflow improvements you can expect by automating the document delivery process in your organization. See why companies that have made considerable investment in back-office automation systems take this next logical step to automate delivery of high volume, transactional paper documents.